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I would personally define efficacy of predictive modes to be a scientific achievement rather than engineering, but that might just be a vocab discrepancy. Do y

I would personally define efficacy of predictive modes to be a scientific achievement rather than engineering, but that might just be a vocab discrepancy. Do you think it’s possible to determine how good their modeling is externally? I would assume we’d need an extensive peek behind the curtains to come to a conclusion.

krtong 7y ago
Thinking about your question I just scratch my head and keep returning to the answer "no I don't." I can't think of a single test of Amazon's consumer behavior model better than search results and product recommendations. If you want to know whether you understand my consumer habits you need to interact with me and get me to buy your predictions. Not to mention, content predictions across the board are awful. Amazon, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, YouTube, Google, Spotify, Soundcloud, you name it they all try to predict what I'm looking for and none of them have figured it out. If one of them was remotely close I might be concerned that there's a formula for how to get me to buy things but so far Im stuck digging through garbage piles for the things I want.